Natives

Lime Magik is a striking Australian native tree admired for its soft, pendulous lime-green foliage that creates a luminous presence in the garden year-round. The fine, cascading leaves bring movement and texture, making it an eye-catching feature in both contemporary and native landscapes. In late winter, soft yellow-cream pompom flowers appear along the branches, adding seasonal charm and subtle fragrance while attracting pollinators. The flowering display enhances the tree’s already vibrant foliage, creating a beautiful contrast of colour and form. Lime Magik works wonderfully as a feature tree, particularly when planted against darker-leaved shrubs to highlight its glowing foliage. It can also be used effectively as an informal hedge or screen, where its weeping habit forms a soft, flowing backdrop.

Soil: Well-drained soil. Mulch and water regularly until the plant is established, usually around 12 weeks, and protect from frost while young.
Conditions: Prefers part shade or dappled shade. Frost, drought and coastal tolerant.
Size: Height 4-5m x width 3-4m. Can reach 10m if left unpruned.

Poa labillardieri Eskdale is a type of perennial tussock grass that has fine, graceful, upright to arching greenish-blue foliage. It produces flower panicles on erect stems from late spring to summer. Eskdale grass provides a good colour contrast with other grasses and softens hard surfaces. It is ideal for planting around water courses, erosion control, mass plantings, rockeries, and slopes. During mid-autumn to late winter, it's recommended to cut back the foliage to 20-30cm high, fertilize it with a slow-release fertilizer, and water well to encourage new growth

Soil: Suited to all soil types.
Conditions: Full sun to part shade. Tolerant of drought, salt, frost, and coastal conditions.
Size; Height 0.60m x width 0.5m

Eucalyptus preissiana, or Bell Fruited Mallee, is a compact, ornamental mallee eucalypt. Its umbrella-like leaf canopy consists of oval, blue-green, blunt-tipped leaves and bell-shaped seed pods. The standout feature of this native tree would have to be its bright, cheerfully yellow flowers, which bloom into a burst of stamens from winter to summer. The mallee is suitable for roadside plantings, screens and shade trees.

Soil: Adaptable to most soil types.
Conditions: Full sun. Moderately drought tolerant and lightly frost-tolerant. Pollution and coastal hardy - though hard to maintain in tropical climates.
Size: Height 3m x width 2m

Philotheca Cascade of Stars is a naturally compact and delightful small shrub that's absolutely smothered with pretty pink flower buds in winter and spring. As the springtime weather warms, the buds open to a dazzling display of sparkling, star-shaped, white flowers. Added to its attraction, the foliage is aromatic when rubbed, and the flowers attract bees, butterflies and birds to the garden. Great for containers and on banks and walls where it can spill over, as a feature plant or mass planted. Clip to shape after flowering. 

Soil: Well-drained, humus-rich soil. A little mulch around the base of the plant will keep the root system cool as well as suppress weeds.
Conditions: Full sun to part shade. Frost, wind, drought and coastal tolerant.
Size: Height 0.30-0.50m x width 0.50m